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    A B-25 bomber airplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
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    Chinese General With Only 100 Men Made An Army of 150,000 Retreat
    According to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Shu general Zhuge Liang had to defend a town with a mere 100 troops against an army of 150,000. He hid his men, flung open the gates, and sat on the walls playing a lute. The opposing general of Wei, Sima Yi, certain it was a trap, ordered a retreat.
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    No one knows who designed the first American Flag.
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    Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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    A baboon called Jackie became a private in the South African army in World War I.
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    Japanese Holdout
    Japanese Holdout
    After World War 2 ended in 1945, a Japanese officer named Hiroo Onoda didn't surrender and continued the war for 29 years because he didn't know that Japan had surrendered and the war was over.
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    The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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    When Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises, he tried to ride them!
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